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Part 1. the Table of Nations EN Tech. J., vol. 4, 1990, pp. 67–92 The Early History of Man: Part 1. The Table of Nations BILL COOPER INTRODUCTION creationist scholars who have specialised in their study. Likewise, the descent of, say, the American Indians or the The following is the first of a two-part study regard­ Chinese or other Mongoloid races is not dealt with, simply ing the early post-Flood history of mankind. In Part 1, we because they lie outside the scope of the present work. shall examine what documentary evidence exists that Rather, Part 1 in particular is concerned only with that verifies both the presence and activities of those charac­ documentary evidence from those early post-Flood na­ ters and peoples of whom explicit mention is made in that tions of the Middle East who had direct contact with one portion of Genesis that is known as the Table of Nations. another, and who preserved in written records those We shall find in this part of the study that the documentary names that are explicitly mentioned in the Genesis record. evidence available to us is at an astonishing variance with The notices that accompany each genealogy are thus very the claims that are currently being put forward by the brief collections of recorded historical facts and subse­ modernist school of historical and biblical interpretation. quent information that pertain to the names under which According to this school of thought, the Genesis record is they appear, and which have been gleaned over many without historical foundation; whereas we shall see in this years from a wide variety of sources. What is remarkable study that exactly the opposite is true. This portion of about these notices is that they mostly come from ancient Genesis in particular is fully corroborated by an over­ historians and writers of various nationalities who had not whelming richness of documentary (and other) historical the least intention, either conscious or otherwise, of lend­ evidence so vast that it is unique in recorded history! No ing support to the Genesis record. Indeed, most of them other document enjoys such a wealth of detailed corrobo­ were nurtured within pagan systems that were openly an­ ration from such a wide-ranging variety of sources — tagonistic to the knowledge of the One True God, and who sources, moreover, that were often hostile to the concept had laboured over many centuries to darken, if not totally of God and His direct revelation to mankind through His erase that knowledge altogether! Their testimony is written Word. therefore all the more valuable to us. In Part 2, we shall go on to examine the genealogies I certainly would not pretend that the information and king-lists of the early Celts and Saxons that show con­ gathered here is complete in any sense! The subject is too clusively that these pagan, pre-Christian peoples were all vast for that. Indeed, it may be that some will consider one too aware of their historic and ethnic descent from Noah or two of the facts presented in this study to be insuffi­ through Japheth’s line. These peoples, through carefully ciently discussed, and will therefore feel that these should preserved records, could trace their lineage and race back be given a more adequate and exhaustive treatment. to the time of Babel and the dispersal of the nations from Should that be the case, then the fruits of their researches the Plain of Shinar. Again, we shall see how these ancient will be warmly welcomed! My intention, after all, is and unique records are dismissed by the modernist school merely to present to the serious researcher a definite his­ with a readiness that is astonishing in its unthinking torical framework that can be built upon and added to as disregard for the historical method. Rather, the records more information comes to light; that, and to vindicate a that have come down to us will be seen to lend their weight record that has been supposed for too long to be nothing to the already vast body of documentary evidence that can more than a ‘pious fiction’. only convince us that the Genesis record is a true and faithful historical account of the early history of mankind. THE BIRTH OF PAGANISM Certain questions will not be dealt with in this two- part study, for the simple reason that their subject-matter Perhaps the most outstandingly inaccurate claim is vast and that they constitute specialist study and expo­ made today by modernist and liberal scholars, is that the sition. In particular, linguistic inter-relationships and book of Genesis grew out of the pagan mythologies of diversities are only lightly touched upon, because these nations like Babylon. It is indeed a much vaunted claim, will doubtless be the subject of future exposition by but one that flies in the face of all the evidence. We shall see, as our study progresses, that as each nation was Eden was known to the Babylonians as Idinu, and was dispersed from Babel, so they carried with them the names said to have been the paradise in which the ‘immortal’ of their founders, and wove around those names a fanciful ones lived. Moreover, the very name of Babylon itself, mythology that led them further and further away from Bab-ilu, meant literally ‘The Gate of God’, standing as it both the true knowledge of God, and a true understanding did between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers — the very of their own beginnings. As time passed, so the ancestor location of Eden as described in the book of Genesis. The worship to which these early peoples were so prone, original Tigris, Euphrates and Eden were, of course, de­ became more gross and degenerate until we are left with stroyed beyond all recognition by the Flood of Noah; and such hideous polytheistic systems as the Babylonian, yet the Babylonians were to preserve both the knowledge Assyrian and Egyptian. Yet, in spite of the parody of and names of them even within their own otherwise per­ religion that we see in the early and modern pagan sys­ verse philosophy. tems, it is still possible to trace the memory, albeit dis­ Likewise, Tubal-cain2 was remembered and wor­ torted, of a great many subjects that Genesis records so shipped by the Babylonians as Bil-kan, the god of metal- accurately.1 working, which name was later further corrupted to Vul­ This is especially true of the Babylonian system. As can, the Roman god of fire. And so it goes on. However, well as such distorted memories as they possessed of the the foundation of paganism was itself a direct and calcu­ Flood, and the dispersal of the nations from Babel, they lated attempt to obscure and pervert the true knowledge of also carried with them distinct memories of Adam, Eve God among the early nations, and its success is all too and the Fall. Indeed, as can be seen in the illustration of evident even today. These pagan gods were adored Figure 1, they were still able to portray Adam, Eve, the merely for the licence that they gave to the practice of Serpent and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil perversions and abominations that it would be tedious to with remarkable accuracy many hundreds of years after describe, and as we ponder these things we surely cannot supposedly losing the knowledge of God altogether! Eve fail to see the absurdity behind the latest notion to emerge was known to them as Nini-ti, ‘The Lady of the Rib’, from the modernist school, namely that all religions lead which name can also mean in their tongue ‘The Lady who to God! Whoever is responsible for such a nonsensical causes to live’, which is the very epithet that Genesis itself idea can know neither the God of Whom they speak, nor records of Eve as the ‘mother of all living’ (see Figure 1). the true and evil nature of pagan worship: Figure 1. Based on a very early Babylonian cylinder seal, this illustration demonstrates the undoubted knowledge among the early Babylonians of Adam, Eve, the Serpent and the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Note how the Serpent stands behind Eve whilst she invites Adam to eat the fruit with her. In all, this seal is an astoundingly accurate picture-book’ account of the Fall. Figure 2. An early Babylonian cylinder seal depicting the migration of an eastern tribe or people. ‘. and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth’. Genesis 11:9 ‘As a patroness of war (the goddess) Anath appears in same thing applies when we read the history that is a fragment of the Baal Epic in an incredibly bloody contained in the book of Genesis. We accept that history orgy of destruction. For some unknown reason she because, in the face of so many disinterested witnesses fiendishly butchers mankind, young and old, in a most and corroborative statements, that is simply the reason­ horrible and whole sale fashion, wading delightedly in able thing to do. To discard such a vast weight of human gore up to her knees — yea, up to her throat, independent testimony would be most unreasonable, and all the while exulting sadistically. “Like gods, like would itself be an act of almost incredible faith in the priest; like priest like people” expresses a law that approach and highly questionable logic of modernistic operates unfailingly.’3 philosophy. It is through the sheer reasonableness, then, It is thus fallacious for the modernist school to suggest of accepting the overwhelming testimony of so many wit­ that either these ‘gods’ or their worshippers bear the nesses that we come to accept the Genesis record as a truly faintest resemblance to those who are one day to inherit historical and factual account; and if this leads us on to the Kingdom of God.
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